I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.